Deleuze, cinema and national identity : narrative time in national contexts /
David Martin-Jones challenges traditional uses of Deleuze's philosophy in his examination of European art cinema. He explores how Deleuze can be used to analyze national identity across a range of different cinemas and by focusing on narrative time, he brings a Deleuzean approach to a vast rang...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Deleuze, film studies and national identity
- History
- Memory
- National identity in the global city
- American triumphalism and the first Gulf War
- Renegotiating the national past after 9/11
- The Pacific Rim
- Conclusion : blind chance and possible futures
- Introduction : Deleuze, film studies and national identity
- 1 History
- 2. Memory
- 3. National identity in the global city
- 4. American triumphalism and the first Gulf War
- 5. Renegotiating the national past after 9/11
- 6. Pacific Rim
- Conclusion : blind chance and possible futures.
- Introduction : Deleuze, film studies and national identity
- 1 History
- 2. Memory
- 3. National identity in the global city
- 4. American triumphalism and the first Gulf War
- 5. Renegotiating the national past after 9/11
- 6. The Pacific Rim
- Conclusion : blind chance and possible futures.
- Introduction: Deleuze, Film Studies and National Identity 1
- Part I Deleuze and Narrative Time
- 1 History 19
- Ungrounding Cinema 19
- National Identity 32
- 2 Memory 50
- Movement and Memory/Time and Memory (Vertigo, 8 1/2) 51
- Memory and Nation (Vertigo, 8 1/2) 67
- Part II Movement-/Time-Image Films
- 3 National Identity in the Global City 85
- Film Futures/National Futures (It's a Wonderful Life) 85
- Sliding Doors 88
- Run Lola Run 100
- Global Labyrinth (You've Got Mail) 113
- Conclusion: The Old and the New 115
- 4 American Triumphalism and the First Gulf War 121
- Triumph of the Past (Birth of a Nation) 121
- Saving Private Ryan 127
- 'Forget the Alamo' (Family Man, Lone Star) 136
- Memento 141
- Conclusion: Interminable Vengeance 151
- 5 Renegotiating the National Past after 9/11 156
- Terminator 3 157
- The Butterfly Effect 170
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 173
- 6 The Pacific Rim 188
- Too Many Ways to be Number One 188
- Chaos 195
- Peppermint Candy 205
- Conclusion: Blind Chance and Possible Futures 222